Hi DBAs!  My name is Charlotte and I’m an OCP Oracle DBA.

I started my first DBA job immediately out of college and I felt so unprepared.  I found that most of the DBAs I worked with either started as developers and migrated into database administration, or they had prepared extensively in college.  I also came across very few DBAs with less than 10 years of experience.  I had only taken one database course in college and had never worked with unix     It was an intimidating position to be in!  Luckily I worked with a very helpful team and a great mentor who helped bring me up to speed.  But as a newbie I still had a lot of trouble understanding documentation and other blogs written by more experienced Oracle professionals.  I’m about three years in now and it’s still difficult to understand some of the documentation I find!  So I’m starting this blog to help other newbies who might be in the same situation I was in.  I’ll share things I’ve learned and things I’m currently working on, and hopefully I can explain things in a way that’s more understandable for less experienced DBAs.  My first job focused more on the physical database, lots of migrations, backup/restore operations, and performance tuning.  My new job focuses more on the database objects, plsql, and business logic.  I’ll try to get a good mix of topics, but let me know what you’d like to see or if you have any specific questions.  Leave a comment to let me know your current situation, what brought you here, and what kind of challenges you’re facing.

Good luck everyone!

Charlotte